It became clear in the year 1843, that, both for the relief of the mother and the profit of the daughter, it would be better that Lydia should be taught elsewhere than at home and in answer to prayer, her father was divinely directed to a Christian sister, whose special gifts in the way of instructing and training children were manifestly from the Spirit, who divides unto all believers severally as He will. The Lord's tender care was manifest as to his beloved daughter Lydia. A few instances may be given, from different departments of experience, as representative examples. He himself loved to trace the Lord's goodness and mercy, and he saw abundant proofs that they had followed him. Wonderful as is the story of the building of those five orphan houses on Ashley Down, many other events and experiences no less showed the goodness and mercy of God, and must not be unrecorded in these pages, if we are to trace, however imperfectly, His gracious dealings and having, by one comprehensive view, taken in the story of the orphan homes, we may retrace our steps to the years when the first of these houses was planned, and, following another path, look at Mr. Surely these two footmen of the Lord, in their celestial livery of grace, followed George Müller all the days of his life.

SOME one has quaintly said, in commenting upon the Twenty-third Psalm, that 'the coach in which the Lord's saints ride has not only a driver, but two footmen'.

George Muller by Roger Steer